"....may our child grow and be well.
Let him be happy from time to time
and leap over abysses.
Let his heart have strength to endure
and his mind be awake and reach far.


But not so far 
that it sees into the future.
Spare him
that one gift,
O heavenly powers."


– Wislawa Szymborska, from "A Tale Begun" (trans. Stanislaw Baranczak)